Notable interactions

• Domestic Sleepers : If stolen by the Runner, it is worth -1 Agenda Point

• Shi.Kyū: Becomes a -2 Agenda Point

Great against

• annihilates Notoriety
• Human First

Work around

As no Corp wants the Board to be accessed by the Runner, it can be packed with a couple of cards:

• Executive Boot Camp to play it as a 1-of, saving influence in the process.
• Encryption Protocol, to increase its trash cost
• Architect, to either trash it before access or install it from archives
• Ash 2X3ZB9CY, to increase its access cost
• Self-destruct, to prevent access

• Jackson Howard, to return it to R&D

  Architect and Self-Destruct work really well, since The Board nets the Runner with 2 Agenda points only if it is trashed while it is accessed. Which means the Runner accessing the Board from Archives is not an issue.

Bad against

• Iain Stirling, as it supports its strategy
• Quest Completed

Given the ability does not state "the fist time you make a successful run" but "whenever you make a successful run...", you can...

**** SPOILER ALERT : UNPLAYABLE STUPID COMBO ****

...run unprotected archives 4 times a turn (yes, all your clicks), 10 turns in a row. 4 times a turn makes sure runner won't get a new card (mandatory draw + 3 clicks). Do this 10 turns in a row with Datasucker, Desperado and John Masanori in play.

After this break, game resumes.

But meanwhile you have shaped the perfect hand, you have 40 credits and 40 virus tokens on Datasucker. You're ready to win.

If Corp purges virus counters, head for another 10 turns :) Stalemate. Force the draw in a tournament if you're in a bad situation.

A 9/6 agenda looks rather awkward and very difficult to score.

Yet it can be considered for workarounds:

• A 6 point agenda in a deck makes it lean. In a 49 card Weyland deck, it is possible to play with only 6 agendas. Adding Jackson, Architect, Fast Track, Atlas and Archived Memories, it might be possible to avoid this card all game long.

• Card can be hosted on a scored Glenn Station - after a fast track - and then simply forgotten for the whole duration of the game. It would then be hard to score or steal points.

• You can install and continuously advance it until it gets stolen. The turn after, play a Punitive Counterstrike.

• A good companion to the Off the Grid / Crisium Grid combo. Prestige matters.

• With a scored Utopia Fragment it is not that easy to steal indeed.

Now let's be less serious... this one's for you, Timmy:

• How can it be scored from hand:

  • with an installed SanSan City Grid + 3 Trick of Light + 3 Biotic Labor (overscored Atlas required)... err... that makes 20 influence ! Draft pack

  • If you are super rich, you can gets many clicks with this unplayable combo:

    • Play 3 x Biotic Labor
    • Recur them with a Reclamation Order
    • Play 3 x Biotic Labor again
    • Recur them with a second Reclamation Order
    • Play 3 x Biotic Labor
    • Recur them with a third Reclamation Order
    • Play 3 x Biotic Labor You have 9 more clicks - one is missing, and Archived Memories won't help - and 51 less credits.

Its ability "3 credits for a click" is bonkers but... I doubt it gets competitive. The definitive Timmy agenda, in my humble opinion.

Eater is a Program that denies the main purpose of a run (to access cards) while strongly supporting its secondary purpose: to trigger conditional abilities or play conditional cards.

At 4 cost and 2 strength, this is the strongest AI in the game. In comparison:

• Crypsis and Overmind are more expensive to install and have 0 base strength

• Atman is tied to a fixed strength that has to be decided from the moment the Runner plays it

• Knight is click costing and can't break subroutines on multiple pieces of a ICE during a same run

• Darwin's strength can't be boosted for credits during a run. It takes many turns to get efficient. Plus it costs 2 credits per broken routine.

• Alpha and Omega are each tied to a single piece of ICE, and cost 7 for 1 base strength

• Wyrm is such a bad joke that I don't write it in markdown format. I don't want you to see it. Just forget about this card.

Pros - Make successful runs

Providing the cheapest way to make successful runs with a single breaker, Eater allows you to play some really powerful tricks. Think of any card that reads "whenever you make a successful run..." and/or "instead of accessing cards..." Here are a few examples:

First, it supports run events to trigger their ability. Go:

• Vamp
• Account Siphon
• Wanton Destruction
• Indexing
• Singularity
• Retrieval Run
• Escher

With Eater on the rig, we can play all this crazy stuff and punish the Corp badly. Ruin their credits, Trash a server (goodbye SanSan City Grid), Trash HQ etc...

With John Masanori, you are sure to make an extra draw each turn.

It allows you to play Data Leak Reversal and use Unregistered S&W '35

Boost Hemorrhage, Datasucker and Chakana to great heights.

Derez Janus 1.0 or Archer with Emergency Shutdown.

Expose HQ with Expert Schedule Analyzer

Works well with Silhouette: Stealth Operative has an ID to get a complete overview of the board.

Run again with Doppelgänger.

Play Hades Shard, Utopia Shard and Eden Shard at no cost.

Trash pieces of ICE. Yes, rip a server with:

• Spooned
• Forked
• Knifed

Once the server is stark naked, go and access cards.

Having trashed assets, upgrades and pieces of ICE, you still need to score points. So why not then play Notoriety and Quest Completed ?

But by far the strongest interaction Eater allows is to make successful runs triggered by Keyhole. The latter bars you from accessing cards anyway. It is then possible to win a game only with Eater + Keyhole + Hades Shard.

Cons - Access 0 cards

From the moment you use Eater during a run, say goodbye to:

• Medium and Nerve Agent
• The Maker's Eye and Legwork
• HQ Interface and R&D Interface

Eater is counterproductive with Edward Kim: Humanity's Hammer as an ID.

But mainly the bane of this card is Swordsman. If Eater gets popular - and I personally expect it to be - Swordsman might see a lot of play anew.

Looking forward to play this.

Pros:

• +1MU and +1 card in hand is nice.
• Allows you to tutor what you need when you need it.
• Allows you to fix a combo by tutoring the missing piece:
  • Oracle May / Motivation
  • Underworld Contact / Access to Globalsec etc..
• allows you to play cards in 1-ofs, thus:
  • saves slots in the deck
  • saving influence
• The 'limit 1 per deck cards' are no loner an issue: Hades Shard, as an example.

For all these reasons Logos is the Console that fits a versatile toolbox deck the best.

Cons:

• It competes with the most powerful Console in the game: Desperado
• A passive Console that requires you to let the Corp score agendas.

Notable synergy:

• Iain Stirling: Retired Spook as an ID, as it fits the game plan.
• Logos + The Source + Fall Guy: When the Corp scores, instead of trashing The Source, trash a Fall Guy and immediately tutor another Fall Guy etc.. Unless the Corp scores twice in the same turn, there is a big chance The Source remains in play the whole game long.